Greetings I’ve been a member of Birding Aus for a couple of years, but rarely posted anything, so this is in some respects introductory. I’m a research scientist by training, commercial scientist by vocation, meaning that my career was primarily in the commercial domain of companies like Bunge, Cadbury and the sugar industry. I semi-retired … Read more
Ornithological Discoveries – The work Paul Walbridge, Dave Stewart, myself and a few others elsewhere are doing on this as yet unidentified Storm-Petrel will be a major event – once we have more data. This is work in progress – it’s either a long lost rediscovery (Lined Storm-Petrel – last seen & collected in the … Read more
Got the Eungella Honeyeater yesterday. A pair in a dense tree just off the track but giving enough of a look to match the facial and eye characteristics. Bev could hear them calling in the area for about 20 minutes. While my number is a bit fuzzy, this is near enough to 600 for it … Read more
Interesting discussion. It’s probably hard to compare achievements like that, and Laurie’s example of clearing Macquarie Island of ferals, and perhaps Gould’s Birds of Australia, with finding a Night Parrot population. While all of them required good planning, funding, persistence and determination, the first three only required enough of those things to guarantee success. John’s … Read more